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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2013-01-19 06:07 pm

Event | Turtle Dive | January 20 - 23 | Underwater zombies crave your briiiiiines

Characters: Any and all PCs
Date: January 20th - 23rd
Location: All Sectors
Situation: Tu Vishan continues swimming along the ocean floor after his monumental dive, but it turns out there are a whole bunch of undead that want in on the party!
Warnings/Rating: Underwater situations, violence, potential gore; to be updated as noted.

>See the comments of this post for various situations and areas available for tagging.
>Each header will be set for a date and/or area.
>Feel free to start your own header for specific situations.
>The Palace subplot will be run in a separate log.
>Refer to the two OOC posts for further details. 01 | 02
heinously: IDA (WHEN IN DOUBT)

[personal profile] heinously 2013-01-29 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His anger is gone, replaced by a peculiar sense of cold, sober prudence.

That was not a product of anything sort of lethal exposure. Standard soldiers were never so methodical with singular slaughter. Seasoned killers, however, were a different breed of deadly, a breed that was accustomed to spectacles of overkill — usually to belay a certain message. He would know.

There was no doubt in his mind. And lo and behold did Albel Nox smile.
]

Hoo, quite a scare! And just what amuses you so, woman?

[ He steps forward, cleansing his sword free of gore with an ominous hiss of steel against the hilt of his scabbard. There was one to his left. Albel charges past, his claw lacerating through the festering underbelly of his enemy. Not one to be out-done, he tore the corded muscle and heaved the rest, where it tumbled along boneless like a rag doll before lurching backward on its legs, perforated abdomen and all. ]

To think you razed these creatures to pieces just for my comfort. [ He flings the entrails, brutally strewn about like molten twine, as if affronted with dust. At Aisha's general direction. ] You overstep yourself.
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[personal profile] emasculates 2013-01-29 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Battle brings me joy, and I overstep nothing.

[As if flinging gore in her general direction would offend her, Albel. She once castrated a man and kept the pieces as a souvenir. To say nothing of the ears she strung about her neck in those early days of the Soviet-Afghan war. It takes an average of seven pounds of pressure to rip off a human ear. A lesson she learned quite well.

The area temporarily cleared of anything lethal besides they two, she diverts her attention to him. A boy, really. Ten years her junior at least. But skilled enough. As she was at that age.]


And if you presume that was for your comfort, you are sorely mistaken. What I choose to do and when I choose to do it is for no one's benefit but mine, boy.
heinously: IDA (pic#)

[personal profile] heinously 2013-01-30 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
In our military, your meddling is enough to label you an 'interloper'.

[ His tone speaks of both impartiality and deceptive nonchalance, but his posture — stiff, claw flexed at his side — speaks of serious restless. Albel files her former statement away for... future consideration. Just the same, he had Certain Opinions about people who pried into foreign engagements by personal right in lieu of prior consent.

Fayt. Cliff. Maria. Every offworlder he's ever had the displeasure of encountering, really.

He didn't get his rank by relying on the aid of others, and he never determined his victories by simply seeing if his wins were neutralized by his assistance.
]
Edited (how do u grammar ) 2013-01-30 21:21 (UTC)
emasculates: (pic#2439644)

... tw for... gore? hideousness? aisha??? all these things are valid things.

[personal profile] emasculates 2013-01-30 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not a subject of your military.

[The sentence is half a snarl, a gauntlet spoken rather than thrown. She does not care for the conventions of his people, whatever they might be, any more than she cared for keeping the faith with her mother's religion.]

But if we are speaking for the consequences of actions taken, I have sewn live snakes into the bellies of breathing men for less than what you've said to me here.
heinously: IDA (WHEN IN DOUBT)

[personal profile] heinously 2013-01-30 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds no more than an peculiar show of creativity. Perhaps my methods are just not up to par as of late.

[ He would sooner shatter it than allow that to become his reality.

Albel observes her with a blossoming scowl of his own, with no viable touch of fear. Interesting to him, that she spoke of the same cruelties he would have rigorously meted out himself. He wanted little more than his victory and continued survival... but it seems he's underestimated.
]

Is this supposed to intimidate me? Think again, woman.
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[personal profile] emasculates 2013-01-30 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no need to intimidate lesser creatures. But I do prefer to warn them, when it's merited.

[She takes several steps towards him and her tone is a very low purr when she speaks again.]

It is more fun that way.
heinously: IDA (an apple a day)

[personal profile] heinously 2013-01-30 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It wasn't as though Albel had any uncertainty about his own strength, but he wouldn't have been surprised to learn that an evolutionary throwback circuit in his brain was trying to trigger a 'competition' subroutine.

A very small part of him wondered how she thought those two terms differed. It might come in handy in the future, after all.
]

Bah, [ For all it's worth, he has the grace to look very sedated. ] Don't be a fool. They are one in the same.
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[personal profile] emasculates 2013-01-30 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Intimidation seeks to cow. It beleaguers the weak into submission, capitulation. A warning speaks of inevitability. Something slow, something inexorable. You can be forewarned of a storm, can you not? But that does not prevent the storm. But if you are intimidated by the storm's coming, you need only go inside. Intimidation is something to be resisted. A warning is intention laid bare.

[He can look as sedate as he pleases, she's still purring her words like a particularly dangerous cat.]
heinously: IDA (I'VE SEEN SOME SHIT)

[personal profile] heinously 2013-01-31 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Faced with the rather verbose explanation, Albel latches onto the last point. Abruptly, his expression grows unreadable. ]

Intention; is that what you call it...

[ Alright. Maybe 'competition' was understating the matter to an obscene level. ]

Heh — things I feel to be irrelevant.

[ In this particular instance, 'irrelevant' was Albel's way of saying 'That doesn't apply to me, unless you can produce evidence proving otherwise'. ]
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[personal profile] emasculates 2013-02-02 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Then you are a fool.

[But she steps in nice and close to say that, for the express point of whispering it in his ear.]
heinously: IDA (Default)

[personal profile] heinously 2013-02-03 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's heard it before. However, there were as many different ways to be foolish as there were fools. He didn't intend to lose any sleep over any blow that hit below the belt.

There's a tense due in part to the sudden proximity, but only just. Certainly all but insubstantial as far as the sense of touch was concerned. His expression is a timeless sort, except that in this case, the cat had not only eaten the canary, it had seasoned and marinated it first. By way of reply, his claw snakes forward to grip her arm. He digs with no sense of charity and speaks low.
]

And just who are you? [ Sometimes, the trouble with Albel's violent and ungracious demeanor was that he tended to be violent and ungracious. Nevertheless, his tone holds equal parts demand, curiosity, and challenge — whatever the present topic was, it was simply a prelude to something with a skeleton, indeterminate.

Somewhere, Count Woltar was dropping words of marooned wisdom. Untimely, to entertain new guests when your own house was in danger of collapsing.
]
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[personal profile] emasculates 2013-02-05 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Aisha.

[If he's causing pain - and he is, in the remotest sense of the word - it does not show on her face or in her demeanour. She has survived so much more than this pitiful child can hope to inflict upon her, no matter his strengths or skills.

In fact, it only gives her cause to broaden her smile.]
heinously: IDA (I AM AN EMOTIONALLY COMPETENT MALE)

[personal profile] heinously 2013-02-06 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ No detectable recognition of pain.

Suffice to say, no Aquarian soldier could curtail their restraint to put up with this without reciprocation. A ghost of a smile crosses Albel's face, even as he flexes the metal fingers of his claw. He had an unhealthy appreciation for experience, and there was no telling what kind of knowledge you might accumulate with one who shrugged trouble.

A less-refined individual would have shown less restraint to cackle.
]

You're no warrior.
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[personal profile] emasculates 2013-02-08 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh that's cute are you trying to get a reaction

too bad.]


No. I am a killer. A survivor. Warriors concern themselves with propriety and honour. Both are irrelevant when you are on a true killing field. I learned of war as a child, slitting throats of those who begged or crawled. I wore their ears as [her words drop to a quiet hiss, just beside his ear.] trophies.

[She reaches up to cup his cheek.]

I am no warrior. But I have murdered many. Would you like to be added to my tally, boy?
Edited 2013-02-08 21:30 (UTC)
heinously: IDA (Default)

[personal profile] heinously 2013-02-09 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Trophies. Those were the kinds of gruesome details, Albel suspects, that didn't need bluffing, because they were far more impressive that any lie.

But he simply doesn't care. Not anymore. Honor and propriety were also irrelevant against beings from an alternate universe, possessing the power and knowledge to create and destroy entire galaxies. It was irrelevant against systems that knew nothing of exhaustion or pain, systems that brandished energy levels in excess of what the known physical laws of the universe should permit.

And he still would be ill-advised to cast aside the warrior spirit that has been forged for him. It was a combination of killer and warrior that had unanimously branded him, to both ally and enemy alike, as the strongest warrior alive. And she talks of a true killing field. As long as he was in possession of the Scourge, they would never be mutually exclusive.
]

Bah. [ Albel's jaw eases against the folded fingers of the woman's hand, settling into a deceptively lazy pose, red eyes narrowing. It is coupled with a silent awareness, and maybe just a hint of healthy overestimation, towards the proximity of said fingers and his own ear... ]

Do you believe, [ His organic hand goes to the leather-covered hilt of her sword, stopping just short of tearing it free from its sheath but close enough that a draw might still be an option. ] that they are incompatible? That would be too simple, even for the likes of a killer.
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[personal profile] emasculates 2013-02-11 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
It depends on the warrior.

[She cocks her head. The gesture is predatory, like a wolf.]

Or the killer.

[She's decided she likes him, and she slides her hand away from his jaw, down to his shoulder and against his chest.]

Now unhand me, or I'll create unpleasant complications for the both of us.

[Implication being: she really does not give a damn if taking him down takes her along as well.]
heinously: IDA (WHEN IN DOUBT)

[personal profile] heinously 2013-02-12 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
What a terrifying thought.

[ And almost...

...refreshing, to brush with someone who had a sharpness to them. It had been a long time, too long, since he had encountered worthy sport.

With a quick jerk, he shoves Aisha back. He yanks her claws free of her arm, flexing them out of habitual flak, before stepping away and sheathing his weapon.
]

Don't expect me to let your little interference slip through my memory. I wouldn't be likely to forget your name, woman.
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[personal profile] emasculates 2013-02-13 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I did not intend to let you, boy.

[She reaches her free hand to her arm where he'd bloodied it with his claws, swipes a finger through the ribbons of blood and licks it clean. And with a smirk that's all edges, she turns her back on him (half a haunt, in its own tongue) and leaves. Somewhere out there there's something else to be killed, and she aims to find it.]